
Umayyad Christianity
Najib George Awad(Author)
Gorgias Press
Published on 6. December 2018
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-1-4632-0757-1 (ISBN)
Description
A study of the identity-formation process that the Christians of Syria-Palestine experienced during the Umayyad Caliphate. It approaches this subject by using John of Damascus and his writings on Islam as a case-study. This provides an exhaustive study of the available historical data in order to stimulate some further thought on John of Damascus's theology and legacy from a contextual and intercultural methodology. Such an examination has not yet been pursued in the scholarship of Byzantine Christianity during that era. Proceeding from a centralizing 'context', the monograph revisits John of Damascus's legacy (and the Umayyad Christians' identity-formation of that era) from the perspective of his historical, Islamic-Arabic context, and not from any assumed, metanarrative, common to contemporary pro-Byzantine theology scholars.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Piscataway
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-4632-0757-1 (9781463207571)
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